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Brethren, In Nov 2012 the GM of Florida issued Decision #3 which was a declaration of religious bigotry. Brothers who were members of a list of named religions were declared not Masons and required to resign or be expelled. The edict cited a part of a landmark carefully leaving out other parts...

A change in the face of Masonry will become literal. There's a century long up and down swing in popularity so many members have seen low popularity for 50 years and that has changed. Most lodges skipped a generation so there are the old guys and the young guys. The old guys are old enough...

You'll need to read the rules in Florida carefully. Some jurisdictions exclude felons. So your first step is to read the rules and find out. Other jurisdictions leave it up to the members. That becomes your second step. Ask to see if members of your own lodge will exclude a candidate with a...

MWPHAGLofTX is a single affiliation jurisdiction. You can only belong to one lodge according to their rules. The buzzword you want to use is "associate membership". It's their way to implement what would otherwise be called dual affiliation. To me it sounded like a word game to establish a...

One day to one month after you turn in your petition it will be read in lodge. A committee will be assigned to contact you and check your references. They will want to come to your home to confirm your wife is okay with your becoming a Mason. One month possibly two after the petition is read...

Also if you get to be an exemplar at a Shrine ceremonial. They told us we would be kneeling for a long time and that we could switch to sitting at any time if we needed to. I looked at the other exemplars and they were all younger than I was. No way was I going to sit down before any of those...

Right. That's my point. Why should a native language even *have* words for "trinary star system"? it has to be a translation failure. Look up at the sky when Sirius is visible and think about that. Not with a telescope just with your eyes. Point in the direction of the brightest star in...

You're thinking of using a telescope to discover that Sirius is a trinary star system. I'm thinking that when I look up at Sirius I see three stars in a triangle. Very different but I bet it's a bear to get that across in translation to a very foreign language. As to Dogon myth saying they...

As I insist that race is about going fast, competing and getting timed, I listed the types of races I expect to find near me in Texas. There's a NASCAR track in Austin just down the rode a piece. I've seen billboards here in San Antonio that mention rodeos and I remembered seeing barrel races...

Astronomy stuff - Sirius A is a bright star and therefore much younger than Sol. This makes it less likely to host a native technological species than Sol (us). Sirius B is a white dwarf. White dwarfs are formed by bright stars running out of hydrogen fuel and going nova or supernova. This...

I have stopped worrying about apologizing to antis. Thank God for who the antis are - Nuts and lunatics. We are a society with secrets. Look to the character of those who oppose us and wonder what it means. Look to the character of any mason you encounter and wonder what it means. The...

Northern edge of Los Angeles county in California across the mountains from the downtown area. http://mwphglcal.org/ has a link to download a PDF with a roster of lodges. Mr Bey, You will need to show up at the local PHA lodge in person to meet the brothers and ask for a petition. That's the...

First phase - There is already at least one military lodge in Iraq sponsored by a PHA grand lodge in the US. To become a Mason you would go there before one of their meetings, get to know the brothers and ask for a petition. I don't know how secure the location of their military lodge is so I...

Do you perhaps mean unification here? All of lodges I am or have been affiliated with are integrated in the sense of mixed membership. Same with tons of lodges I've visited over the years. In my experience that's been a done deal for longer than there's been recognition with visitation. In...

Exactly. This makes it very hard to answer the question "Is there light in the north?" At some points light is physical illumination by the Sun. At other points light is knowledge or wisdom. Darkness could be either the unknown or the unknowable. Depending on approach and layer of symbolism...

To ask for a petition go to a lodge near you and ask in person please. The monthly meeting schedule should be on the door of the building. Arrive a while before the meeting starts to give you time to meet the brothers and get a tour of the building before the Masons-only meeting starts. You...

This is a valid point. As a non-member he can write as he wishes and make up stuff that works for his plot lines.

Unfortunately I've seen similar quotes from Illinois in the 1800s so I figure similar can be found in the proceedings of many GLs. Medicine everywhere has moved past the bleeding that helped kill Washington. Until we have recognition with visitation everywhere we can't say it's a part of our...

I sigh for the lost years of opportunity. The best way to stand on the square to me was to go to lodge and try my best to emulate the men around me who were already doing that. In our early years in lodge our elders are our mentors. We work to be like them. In our late years in lodge our...

The United States is a part of the Anglo-Germanic branch of western civilization with plenty of influence from the Franco-Latin and Helenic branches of western civilization. It is natural that our schools should teach western civilization with a local focus and thus they tech US history and...